Guided tour of the mottes castrales of La-Tour-Saint-Austrille

Name: Guided tour of the mottes castrales of La-Tour-Saint-Austrille
Start: 2023-09-16T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Les mottes castrales de l'an mil

The Mottes castrales de l'An Mil are the testimony also foreshadows the liabilities that will generate future conflicts between Aquitaine and France. Being on the border of these two zones implies an

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free. Free admission. Departure of the visits to the church of La Tour.

©Association De la Tour de Bois au Donjon de Pierre

The Mottes castrales de l'An Mil are the testimony also prefigures the passive that will generate future conflicts between Aquitaine and France. Being on the border of these two areas implies a strong interaction between the local history and that of these two areas of power.
The visit allows you to discover the remains of different eras related to the history of the site which is classified as Historical Monuments. Its links with the end of the Carolingian period are told.

About the location

Les mottes castrales de l'an mil

La tour, 23130 Saint-dizier-la-Tour

Creuse
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The history of the mottes castrales of La-Tour-Saint-Austrille was revealed thanks to Thérèse Mangeret after more than 10 years of research and a long journey to find many documents, decipher the archives and validate hypotheses. It is the place of appearance of the first of the counts of the March and therefore the origin of the Creuse. Boson first was sent to the site by the Duke of Aquitaine in the year 957-958, in a particular context that foreshadows the coming conflicts between Aquitaine and its neighbors. The tour details both the local context and the larger picture. It reveals the remains of successive eras of the site’s history.